The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-12-02
MEMS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

in nineteen countie. In Illinois. In some OF
these counties the mortality has amount ed
10 seventy per cent. among the young stock
and nifty Der cent among the mature.
- O.d SOrreI." SJOnewaIl Sackson's fam
ous wal houIe. has been stuffed by Wasting
ton taxidsrmist. and will tie preserved by
the veterans Of the Robert Z. lie Camp, at
K chmond. in memory Of the great cum
nIaudsr.
Colonel Williams, in his history Of the
! negro troops In the rebellion. says there
we're I7s 975 of the black soldiers enrolled
in the volunteer. army Of the Unired States
and OF this numUer. So. .s47 died in the ser
vice OF their country.
TIE LeIghb1rhoOd of Drnnisou, I1wa, is
excited over the elopement Of Mrs Henry
Bioomdaie. the wife or prom in, ut farmer.
nth a negro named DaYidson, who worked
on the farm. The woman was well con-
nected and had all the comforts of Iife
Sue left three small children.
-Drspatches from various points In
Southern lIl. uuis repo.t the breaking up Of
the nSe mouths dIOuth. The forest fres
have been eItingaished. aud at Champaign
the sudden breaking out OF a stream of tx
celieht water in a level field of parch-d land
brought great r-lief to the farmers, who
I daIumrd up the water and Lauied It away
to their homes.
-FleIden and Schws5, the Anarchists,
were for the fist tune visited 10y their
wives at the prison at IolIet ON Yesterday
week. The visit was received in tae wait
! ing TUom. Both prisoners dunLed cI.iz-ns'
Clothes, as Is the custom when cOuSicts re-
celNe relatives. Both Men exhibited con-
siderable feeling. The meeting was affect
| ing. but not demonstrative.
Toe hesviest locomotive ever turned out
ID Paterson. y. j., WAS shipped recently
| from The Rrgers works. II Was for th- I'm
| 4 q Pacific r .ilrOad and il weighed ll2 900
1 p"uHcs- When 1t Is known that The neav-
/ lest freight engines, with eight driving
wheels, weigh only l29 600 poILds. and this
passenger engine has only fodr drivers,
som. idea Of its szo may be Inferred.
Millions of eggs are imported TO this
/ country ryrry year. and from nearly every
/ paIt of Europe, because eggs from Germany
| Belgium. and even Russia, can be put on
the American market quicker, than they
! can I've gathered from the bfrnyards out
| West and brought to New Yu.k The
American hen. If She has any patriotism at
! ali. will scratch round pretty lively 10 save
| the honor OF tbe nag.
john Ii. Bgus. colorei, charged with
| feloniUus assault oH Mrs. 1rakIe, an aged
! white womau, of Fr=dsIick Md. on FRIDAY
last, was taken from all by masked men at
l:30 O'clock IN Monhay morning aud haug-
| ed IL tree about a qnarter of a mile from
| the prison B,gus declared bis iuuoc-nce.
| and said he had Witnessed Joe Hail, another
| coIOred man. make the assault. As Bigus
bad been positively ident flied oy Mrs. Yeskle
/ his statement was not bell we'd
The ST amer Charles p. ChOtteau, which
| left Memphis on Saturday week for N-w
Orleans, was burned on the fol owing Tues
day afternoon. at O'Clock, near VIcxsbu-g.
She had $500 oales of cotton on board and
250O sacks Of oic4ke. She was about to
! back out from the landing when the FIRE
was discovered among the cotton. Ven
race horses that H-re On board were u ned
The passengers lost nraIiy all their eluthes.
| Two coUred deck hands lost their lives.
In NV Yok on Tuesday OF last Wet (
= Clothing firm gave away 1000 overcUats IC
! poor buys Forty policemen were necessary
! To keep pack the xT-A, crowd of lads which
/ surged IN biInws against tn. big plate-g!ass
windows. One little chap handed a flor
walker dingy note. saying thas the bearer
! was the son Of q widow. "Who wrote this %
/ inquired the ,or-wslker. Me faidsr. :
! innOcentiy r-piied the boy; but lie got hi:
coat Just the same The 1000 oVrrcoat,
melted before that army like suo~fiakes OF
an oven.
"A neht between about 100 crows and
/ perhaps 200 tn 800 E r<Iish sparrows va:
| witnessed st CumEin,yill-, o, just before
sandown. te- days ago. The crows were
returning to the T rook-ry from feeding
wheb they were attacked hy the sparrnws
I -Four or five of the latter would get after on,
! crow aud pi. k il so badly a. To almost dis
| able il. Ia fact three or four fell to ths
| groudd. b-ing 80 badly I jared as 10 be un
| able to hy. The hght resulted in the com
| pl-te Tout of The crows. One OF them PICK
| I'd up was found TO have had both its eye
literally picked out.
/ Snow sheds to cover the railway tract
hav. oeen.b built at points on the Central Pa
! cifc road WI ere IL crosses the Sierra A.
the trains bound Z ,st lraYe Emisrant Cal
they run through un- contInuDus shed for 3!
miles. Tnrre is nothing peculiar in the con
! struction of these sheds. which have to lin,
OF the Canadian Pacific where the roar
| crosses thu Rocky Mountains, III -ds of diff
ferent construction are need-d. Before tn,
road WAS completed observations in tht
mountains showed that avalanches must bt
I provided against A single avalanche COW
! cred the track for a distance OF 700 feet
! and TO the depth of SO feet. The results OF
these observations WAS that the company
built four and half miles Of snow sheds al
! an enormous expense. The sheds are cuu.
! stTuct-u as fo.luws: On the high side OF
tie mountain slope a crib filed with stone.
constructed. Along the entire length OF
the shed aud on the opposite side of the
track a timber treste Is erected strnn.
timber beams are laid from the top OF the
crib work TO the top OF the trestle four feel
apart, ard at Au angle representing the
slope Of the mountain as Desrly as possible
| These are covered over with fuur-Inci
plansiDg and the beams are braced on eithel
side from the tr-stle aud from the crib
The covering Is placed at such a height as tC
give 81 Ieet Roadway from the under side OF
the BRAN TO The center of the track. The
onsest OF these sheds Is B Zoo feet
AT Paistks, Fla. little daughter Of
| George Il k-T was playing ia the grove
when she suddenly raised a cry that brough;
her mother aud The house. dog quiz K u
ner- When the mother reached th-, spur
whence The cry proceeded she almost faIut-
ed with terror AT the sight pIeseB--d. On q
slight hillock lay her child, viii { cuiled or